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Re: What are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by chadn737

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, one of the best and most enlightening books I've read in a while.

I recently read a book called Regular Fascism by Mike Goldman. before that Conservative Fascism by Hank Greenstein. Both were quite enlightening. The sex scenes were great too. 50 shades of Dick Cheney, anyone?

Re: What are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by HCabret

I recently read a book called Regular Fascism by Mike Goldman. before that Conservative Fascism by Hank Greenstein. Both were quite enlightening. The sex scenes were great too. 50 shades of Dick Cheney, anyone?

Sigh, another liberal who is butt hurt by the title of the book because he doesn't realize that it was taken from a speech by preeminent liberal and socialist HG Wells. Would you rather he have used the other term HG Wells proposed "Enlightened Nazism?"

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Re: What are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by HCabret

I recently read a book called Regular Fascism by Mike Goldman. before that Conservative Fascism by Hank Greenstein. Both were quite enlightening. The sex scenes were great too. 50 shades of Dick Cheney, anyone?

now that was funny h, way to go

i fear the fate of all mankind is in the hands of fools.....
-king crimson-

Re: What are you reading right now?

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Good god, this thing is a brick, and I feel like the arguments (while perfectly valid) could definitely have been better described in a much shorter manner.

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."-Plato

Re: What are you reading right now?

Originally Posted by Squatch347

Sigh, another liberal who is butt hurt by the title of the book because he doesn't realize that it was taken from a speech by preeminent liberal and socialist HG Wells. Would you rather he have used the other term HG Wells proposed "Enlightened Nazism?"

Liberal socialist, is that even possible? Am I a socialist? huh....?

Was I really that "butt-hurt" or were you for me mocking mr. Well's speech? Enlightened Conservativism? Is that even possible?

Re: What are you reading right now?

You realize that modern Liberals are politically on the left just as socialists are right? The political left is defined as collectivist in nature.

Originally Posted by HC

Was I really that "butt-hurt" or were you for me mocking mr. Well's speech? Enlightened Conservativism? Is that even possible?

Have you ever heard that Mark Twain quote it being better to have everyone think you are an idiot than to open your mouth and prove it?

In this statement you not only show you have absolutely no idea what the book is about, but you have no idea what my position even is. I'm not supporting H.G. Well's, he was a Leftist. You also seem to think that Naziism was "conservative" when it in fact, was also Leftist.

Originally Posted by HC

PS. most politcal scientists would disagree with you. Fascism is normal located on the right end of the political spectrum. Communism is usually on the left side.

Not really. Fascism is simply "right wing" socialism. That doesn't mean it is on the Right wing politically, only that it is slightly to the right of full on socialism. The fact that both Mousollini and Hitler were part of the Socialist party before creating their own "third way" parties should tip you off. The fact that the Nazi Party was the "National Socialist" party should as well. I think it was said best by Joseph Goebbels when he said "We are Socialists!"

Re: What are you reading right now?

Great economic book written as a fictional story set in a future where the Soviet Union won. "Time Will Run Back." By Henry Hazlitt. It also has the great advantage of being basically free on a Kindle.

Re: What are you reading right now?

The Book of Five Rings, by Musashi.

He tends to ramble, and it's a bit disjointed. For all that, though, it seems pretty apparent that the guy knew his stuff and was doing about as well as a true master of an art can do when trying to distill the wisdom of a lifetime of practice and victory into a relatively short book.

Re: What are you reading right now?

I'm taking a history research course on the Americas. It's quite interesting how this particular course is different than most courses. Most history courses are linear, focus on events during that timeline, do not care to explore ideas, concepts, or events in a way that relate to others, and are typically within a very narrow window of time. This course on the other hand, takes into account not just the events as they unfold, but also the accounts of people who actually lived it (which are recorded from diaries, journals, ship manifests, legal documents, etc...) and the concept of Big History.

There is no "textbook," which is what would be expected in a typical history course, but rather a variety of books and research materials. The idea of the course is to teach students how to think and research like a history investigator, understand that history as a science actually evolves, and the theories and ideas of events, places, and people, change over time.

And because research is not reading a "book at a time, front to back" I don't have just 1 book I'm reading. For example, I just completed a project regarding the Iberian Conquest (Spain and Portugal) of the Americas. For this particular project, instead of reading a single book for the study, multiple sources (besides just the books of course) were used.

The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Struggle and Survival in Colonial America
The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America
American Colonies: The Settling of North America

My next project will include the above as well as:

The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
Paul Revere's Ride
Peoples and Empires: A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present

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Re: What are you reading right now?

I'm reading the Qur'an currently. My fave book is probably George Orwell's novel of totalitarianism 1984 in which heretical thoughts or actions by members of The Party eventually result in their being vaporized, which is a euphemism for shot in the back of the head after receiving reparative therapy in the dreaded Room 101. The Qur'an is a similarly totalitarian tome, but the punishments are more colourful.

Garments of fire will be tailored for those who disbelieve; scalding water will be poured over their heads, 20 melting their insides as well as their skins; 21 there will be iron crooks to restrain them; 22 whenever, in their anguish, they try to escape, they will be pushed back in and told, Taste the suffering of the Fire.